Nickname: Jean Pritzker, Jean "Gigi" PritzkerProfession: Film Producer, BusinesspersonNationality: United States of AmericaDate of Birth: 1962Place of Birth: Chicago

Jean (Gigi) Pritzker Net Worth: Jean (Gigi) Pritzker is an American heiress and filmmaker who has a net worth of $2.1 billion. Born Jean "Gigi" Pritzker in 1962, Illinois, she came into riches as a member of Chicago's famous Pritzker family. Her grandfather Abram Nickolas Pritzker, professionally known as A.N. Pritzker, co-founded Marmon Industrial corporation and Hyatt Hotel chain together with his sons Jay, Gigi's father, Donald and Robert. In 2007, Pritzker clan sold Marmon's controlling stake for approximately $4.5 billion to Berkshire Hathaway owned by fellow billionaire Warren Buffett. A graduate of Stanford University, Gigi and her friend Deborah Del started a small film production company, Odd Lot Entertainment. It was shortly after she finished her courses in documentary film making. In 2010, the film company released the movie Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman, and the next year, it produced Drive starring Ryan Gosling. Last November, Odd Lot launched its biggest movie Ender's Game with Harrison Ford that allegedly costs $110 million. In addition to her fortune, Gigi and Ted Rawlins own Relevant Theatricals, a live stage production company, and together with her brother Thomas, she purchased TMS International Corp., a steel company, for $1 billion. Moreover, Gigi and her husband Michael Pucker have founded the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation and the Chicago Children's Theatre.

Jean "Gigi" Pritzker (born 1962) is an American billionaire, filmmaker, and philanthropist. She is a member of the Pritzker family, as the granddaughter of A.N. Pritzker and daughter of Jay Pritzker.

Pritzker was born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Marian "Cindy" (n?(C)e Friend) and Jay Pritzker. Her maternal grandfather was Prague-born jurist Hugo Friend. Her father diversified the Chicago-based family business, the Marmon Group - along with his brothers Robert Pritzker and Donald Pritzker - building it into a portfolio of over 60 diversified industrial corporations. They also created the Hyatt Hotel chain in 1957 and owned Braniff Airlines from 1983???1988. The family has been divesting its assets: in 2006, the family sold Conwood, a smokeless tobacco company, for $3.5 billion to cigarette company Reynolds American Inc; in 2007, the family sold control of the Marmon Group to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion; and in 2010, the family sold its majority stake in Transunion, the Chicago-based credit reporting company, for an undisclosed amount to Chicago-based private-equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners. Pritzker graduated with a B.A. in anthropology from Stanford University.After taking courses in documentary film making, she co-founded - along with her friend Deborah Del Prete - the Culver City, California based film production and financing company Odd Lot Entertainment. In 2010, Odd Lot produced the film Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman and in 2011, produced the film Drive starring Ryan Gosling. In November 2013, Odd Lot released Ender's Game a film co-starring Harrison Ford, and based on Orson Scott Card's science fiction tale. Pritzker also develops and produces live stage productions - along with her partner Ted Rawlins - through their company Relevant Theatricals. Relevant Theatricals produced the play Million Dollar Quartet.Pritzker is president and a trustee of the Pritzker Pucker Family Fou

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